ELPUB 2008 - 2nd Call For Papers (deadline: January 20th 2008)

     *** Apologies for cross posting ***

12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada

Second Call for Papers ELPUB2008
Submission deadline: January 20, 2008

<http://www.elpub.net/>

Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in
the 
Age of Web 2.0

Scholarly communications, in particular scholarly
publications, 
are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers,
universities, 
funding bodies, research libraries and publishers are
responding 
in different ways, from active experimentation, adaptation,
to 
strong resistance. The ELPUB2008 conference will focus on
key 
issues on the future of scholarly communications resulting
from 
the intersection of semantic web technologies, the
development of 
cyberinfrastructure for humanities and the sciences, and new

dissemination channels and business models. We welcome a
wide 
variety of papers from members of these communities whose 
research and experiments are transforming the nature of
scholarly 
communications. Topics include but are not restricted to:

*   New Publishing models, tools, services and roles
*   New scholarly constructs and discourse methods
*   Innovative business models for scholarly publishing
*   Multilingual and multimodal interfaces
*   Services and technology for specific user communities,
media, and
     content
*   Content search, analysis and retrieval
*   Interoperability, scalability and middleware
infrastructure to
     facilitate awareness and discovery
*   Personalisation technologies (e.g. social tagging,
folksonomies,
     RSS, microformats)
*   Metadata creation, usage and interoperability
*   Semantic web issues
*   Data mining, text harvesting, and dynamic formatting
*   User generated content and its relation to publisher's
content
*   Usage and citation impact
*   Security, privacy and copyright issues
*   Digital preservation, content authentication
*   Recommendations, guidelines, interoperability standards

Author Guidelines
Contributions are invited for the following categories:
      - Single papers (abstract minimum of 1,000 and maximum
of 1500 words)
      - Tutorial (abstract minimum of  500 and maximum of
1500 words)
      - Workshop (abstract max of 1000 words)
      - Poster (abstract max of 500 words)
      - Demonstration (abstract max of 500 words)

Abstracts must be submitted following the instructions on
the
conference website: <http://www.elpub.net/>

Key Dates:
January 20th 2008: Deadline for submission of abstracts (in
all 
categories):

February 28, 2008: Authors will be notified of the
acceptance of
submitted papers and workshop proposals.

April 11th, 2008: Final papers must be received. See website
for
detailed author instructions.

Posters (A1-format) and demonstration materials should be
brought by
their authors at the conference time. Only abstracts of
these
contributions will be published in the conference
proceedings.
Information on requirements for workshops and tutorials
proposals
will soon be posted on the website.

All submissions are subjected to peer review (double-blind)
and 
accepted by the international ELPUB Programme Committee.
Accepted 
full papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Printed proceedings are distributed during the conference. 
Electronic versions of the contributions will be archived
at: 
<http://elpub.scix.net/>


ABOUT ELPUB

The ELPUB 2008 conference will keep the tradition of the
previous 
international conferences on electronic publishing, held in
the 
United Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden
(1999), 
Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Portugal (2003),
Brazil 
(2004), Belgium (2005), Bulgaria (2006) and Austria (2007),
which 
is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians, 
developers, business executives, entrepreneurs, managers,
users 
and all those interested in issues regarding electronic 
publishing in a wide variety of contexts. These include the

human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, 
commercial, and other relevant aspects that such an exciting

theme encompasses.

Three distinguishing features of this conference are: broad
scope 
of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active
exchange 
and learning about various aspects of scholarly
communications 
and electronic publishing; combination of general and
technical 
issues; and a condensed procedure of submission, revision
and 
publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of
most 
recent work.

ELPUB 2008 offers a variety of activities, such as
workshops, 
tutorials, panel debates, poster presentation and
demonstrations. 
A variety of social events and sight-seeing tours will be 
available to participants (at additional costs). Please see
the 
conference web site for details.

Conference Location: Toronto, Canada. Toronto is one of the
most 
vibrant cities in North-America. It has a large
multicultural 
population, is the largest city in Canada and the
5th-largest 
city in North America. There are many world class galleries
and 
museums across the city and you will find authentic cuisines
from 
around the world at reasonable prices.

Conference Host: Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), 
University of Toronto. KMDI is a graduate research and
teaching 
institute at the University of Toronto, and an intellectual

incubator fostering cross-disciplinary initiatives across
the 
university. The work of the institute spans both the
scientific 
study of the ways in which media shapes and is shaped by
human 
activity, and the practical work of founding an
interdisciplinary 
nexus for design and evaluation of both media and media 
technologies. KMDI has acknowledged leadership, substantial

research programs and broad participation in three major
areas: 
collaboration and collaboration technologies, the phenomenon
of 
openness and new forms of knowledge production and
dissemination, 
and public policy and citizen engagement.

General Chair: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto
Scarborough, 
chanutsc.utoronto.ca

Programme Chair: Susanna Mornati, CILEA - Inter-Academic 
Consortium for ICT, Italy, mornaticilea.it

Inquiries: <mailto:elpub2008elpub.net>
Web site: <http://www.elpub.net/

Susanna Mornati, CILEA
Project Leader AEPIC, www.aepic.it
+39 02 2699 5322, +39 348 7090 226,
mailto:mornaticilea.it, skype: susanna.mornati